West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-11-03

by Gods help 10 practice unlimited
forgiveness. 1t improves ones BODY and
soul IL will make you measure three or four
more inches around the chest, and improve
your respiration so that you can take a deep
or and longer breath. 10 improves the coun-
tenance by scattering the gloom and bright
ening the forehead. and loosening the pinched
look about the nostril and lip, aud makes yon
somewhat like God Himself. He Is omnipo-
tence, and VIC cannot COPY that. He Is indie
pendent OF all the universe, and we cannot
copy that. He Is creative and we cannot
copy that He Is omnipresent. and we cannot
copy mat But He forgives with a broad sweep
all faults, and all neglect, and all insults,
ana all wrong-doing, and in that we may copy
hlm with mighty success. Go harness that
sublime action OF your soul 10 an autumnal
sunset, the hour when the gate OF heaven
opens TO let the day pass into the eternities
and some OF the glories escape this way
through the brief opening. We talk about
the Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the An.
pennies, and sunset amid the Cordilleras
But viii tell you how you may see a grander
sunset than any mere lover OF nature ever be-
held; that is, by hnging into il all your
hntrcds and animOsities, and let the horses OF
hre strampe them, and the chariots of fire
roll over them, and the spearmen of fire
stab them, and the breath of fire consume
them, and the pillows Of fire oyerwbelm
them. The sublimest thing God does is the
sunset. The sublimest thing you can do Is
forgiveness. Along the glowing banks of
this coming eventide let the divine and tho
human be concurrent
Again; We should not let the sun go down
on our wrath because IL Is of little Importance
what the world says OF you or does To Won
when you have the afiiuent God OF the sunser
as your proyider and defender. People
talk us though it were fixed spec-
tacle or nature and always the same
but no one ever saw two sunsets nike
and IL the world has existed q 1000 years there
have been about =, 100. 900 sunsets each of
them as distinct from all tine other pictures i'm
tine gallery OF the sky IA Titian's Last Sup.
per" Rubens' descent from the Cross -
haphaePs TRANSPORTATION and Michael
Angeles "Last Judgment, are distinct
from each other II that God. Of mcb
Infinite resouces that he can put on the wall
OF the sky each night more than the Louvre
ana the Luxembourg, and the Vatican, and
the dresden and Venetian galleries all in one
Is my God and your God, our provider and
protector, what is the use of our worry
ing ABOUT any human antagonisml III we are
mlslnterpreted the God of the many colored
sunset can put the right color on our action.
II ne can afford to hang such masterpieces
over the outside wall of heaven and have
tnem obllterated in an hour he must be very
rlch IN resources and can put us through i'm
SAFETY. IL all tho garniture of the western
heavens at eventide is but the upholstery of
one OF the windows of our future home what
small business for us to be- chasing enemiesi
wrath. F Jul
Heaven and hell, n drop Of blood shed is bet
Ter than fasting, and wounds in the day of
judgment respondent as vermilion and odor-
ferrous as musk" But, my hearers, in the
last day we Will find just the opposite of
-that TO be true, and that the sword never nm
locks heaven, apd that ho who heals wounds
IS greater than he who makes them, and that
on the same ring are two keys: Gods for
giveness of us and our forgiveness ofenem!es.
and these two keys unlock Paradise.
And now wish for all of you a beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With some
OF you it has been long day of trouble, and
with others OF you it will be far from calm
When the sun rose at o'clock il was the
morning OF youth aud u fair day was
prophesied, but by the time the MONDAY of
mid-life had come ami the clock of your
earthly existence hal struck - cloud racks
gathered and tempest beloved in the track
of tempest. But as the evening of old age
approaches Ipray God the skies NAV brigbteu
and the clouds be piled up into pillars n
move as with mounted cohorts come to take
you home. And as you sink out of sight be
low the horizon may there be a radiance
OF Christian example lingering long after
you are gone, and on the heavens be writ
ten in letters of sapphire, and on the waters
IN letters OF opal and on the hills in letters OF
emerald Thy sun shall no more 90 down
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself fn,
the Lord shall be thy everlasting light and
the days OF thy mourning shall be ended
SO shall the sunset of earth become the sun
rise of heaven.